The Somerset reporter., 1887-07-13
STATE NEWS.

Biddeford has organized ii Beard Of
Trade.
Seventy wcayers employed In the York
mills at Saco have struck because one of
lheir number was discharged for putting
on ms hat and coat before the bell struck.
James H. David, prominent citizen of
Damariscotta, died last week.
Walter c Pierce has been commissioned
postmaster at North Vienna.
Edward Banks, 81 years old. a proni-
nent citizen of Belfast hanged himself in
his house, Friday noon
The Aroostook Republican of Caribou
says the dogs in that section arr st II kill
ing hens. Whenever "A coop door hap
pens TO be left open at night the hens are
found mangled and dead next morning.
Several parties have lost their hens in
this way, and the chances are that any
dog found proving round II hcn-hoelsc
henceforth will be summarly disposed
Of
delegation of patriots is expected in
Washington from Portland this week for
the purpose of advising the admini>tra-
ton about the appointment of surveyor
OF the port. Says the correspondent of
the Portland Advertiser
NOTWITHSTANDING the excessive warm
weather the Bar Iiarbor travel through
Bangor has been comparatively lght
thus far compared with that of the same
period last year A grand rush is expect
ed soon, however.
1t is announced that the Commissioner
Of Labor, Mr.. Mathews, is about to eX-
anime the Ara Cushman method of iii
vidlng percentage of profits among his
..rlr ..rl,f ,l a.,
successful This is something practical.
and Mr.. Mathews report will be awarded
more than ordinary interest by the public
at large.
1t would be for the benefit of their con-
stltuents and the country at large if every
member Of the United States Senate
should initiate the example of Names two
Senators, Mcssrs. Hale and FIVE, and i'm
prove the vacation period by visiting the
Old World and studying its people and in
stitutons.
Travellers will be interested in an or
der recently issued by General Ticket
Agent Flanders, Of the Boston 4 Maine.
by which the new 1000 mile tickets are
made good to the hands of the bearer.
They were at first non-transferabe Mr..
Flanders order makes it possible TO sell
them, lend them or give them away. 1t
has been decided however, that but one
person can travel on the same ticket at
the same time.
At Scarboro Berch Friday last, Thomas
lIargraft and daughter, boarders at the
kirkwood House, from Coburg, near
Montreal, went in bathing. The father
swan out quite distance, and the daugh-
ter wadcd out and lost her footing. Mr..
Hargraft swan back to aid her, but could
do nothing to assist her. Before help
could be obtained both were drowned.
The body of Miss llargraft was soon re-
covered, but life was extinct.
The bar Harbor Limited is already a
great success. Going cast it is daily
occurrence to find every seat engaged
while Il large number of travellers are car
ried the other way.
The Presque Isle Herald says it is ru-
mored that large and valuable deposit
of Slate has been discovered within Il few
miles of the proposed Northern Maine
railroad.
j. Wiener, y. NJ, principal of Wiener
Institute, New York City, with twenty
two of his pupils, is spending the summer
in ReadllcId, on the shore of Lake Maran-
acook. With boating, fishing and riding
the boys are having pleasant vacation
Edward Banks, 81 years old, a promi-
ncnt citizen of Belfast, hanged himself in
his house, Friday II ION.
The members of b. H. Bcale Post G. A.
r., of Bangor and their friends have
raised Slo3.25 to send to the wife of
Game Warden Hill, who was shot bv
Graves, and who was member of the
Grand Army.
Thursday, while Llwellyn Morrow of
Norrdgewock, was moving with pair of
young horses, one of the rcins broke, and
in trying to stop the team he was thrown
down, caught by the machine and dragged
several rods till the horses broke loose
from it. He received frightfnI and prob
ably fatal injuries nearly all the flesh be-
ing stripped from his left arm Several
fingers on each hand were broken, and
there were several cuts on his chest.
With all these wounds he got up and
walked some distance to his house Drs.
Robbins and Brown dressed his wounds.
The MonSon Slate looks ut it in this
way: The man who thinks for mo-
ment that the projected line from Skow-
hogan is going to head of or hinder the
plan of a direct route from Boston to
Mo0Sehead Lake has not studied the map
of Maine very much for it will be fur
thcr by that road to Moosehead than now
by the way of Bangor. The fact still re-
mains, because the geography of the
county will not let it be different, that the
direct line to Mooschead must be via of
llartland or Dexter"
The Bangor Wing says that last Satur-
day the Maine Central people at Bar IIar-
Dor, report rs the best day for business
they ever had. They have had to enlarge
their freight house, and find themselves
crampcd for facilities to properly care
for the freight that comes in daily. The
hotels are all open and the beaches
present lively appearance.
The craze over real estate still runs
high, but no important sales have been
effected tine past few weeks. Ncgotia-
tons with parties are now going on
which will no doubt result in high priced
sales.
Last Wednesday morning at the west end Of
the kennCbcc bridge in the Maine Central yard
shiftcr and four cars ran into freight train No.
II, John CauScland conductor. The freight
engine was thrown off the irons. passenger
j. II. Weymouth of Gardiner, ON the freight,
was thrown down and his knee wrcnchcd and
hand injured.
An adjourned meeting Of the Penobscot Cen
trail Railroad Co, was held in Bangor, Thurs
day. 1t was voted to appoint a committee to
confer with other parties regarding the building
Of said road provided the negotiations now
pending with the Pi>cataqnis railroad are not
carried out. The committee appointed were
Messrs. j. II, Higgins Of Charleston, John
Morrison Of Corinth, and ". T. Pearson Of
Bangor. \ committee was also appointed to
sec what the towns Of Leyant, kendlskcag and
Charleston will do to aid the building Of the
road.
The Vestibuie Train
The first appearance in New England Of the
newest thing in railroading, the ycstibule train,
took place on Monday last the Boston aud
Bar llarbor route via the Boston and Maine
and the Maine Central roads. Two luxurious